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VOLUME XXIV.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 5. 192.
NUMBER 14
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OFFICERS
S. F. WILSON, President
H. KOEPKE Vice-President,
F. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
E. A..ZERBA. Asa't Cashier.
' DIRECTORS
S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE,
W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WAITS,
F. S. Le GROW.
FIRST NATIONAL BAH
OF ATHENA
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $100,000.00
We extend to our Depositors every c4.ccommdation A
consistent with sound Banking.
WALLA WALLA AND PENDLETON
DESERT AFTER SIGNING UP.
BAKSAYHER
DUSTPAN
OLD WAY
NEW WAY
With your next purchase
amounting to $2.50 or
over, we will give vou
one of these Dust Pans
Something entirely new.
It will save your temper
and last a lifetime. ;
H.A. BUNDY. Athena
THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal :
A. M. Johnson, Manager
. Athena, Oregon
THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET
We carry the best
MEAT
That Money Buys
Our Market is
Clean and Cool
Insuring Wholesome Meats.
D. H. MANSFIELD
Main Street, Athena, Oregon
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
WOYAl BArWQ EOWOPft CO., NEW YOWK.
JOB PRINTING'
Neat Workmen
d Past, Modern Presses "
High Grade Stock
Unsportsmanlike Action Puts
Athena-.Weston, and MUtoiS-
Freewater to the Bad.
The Bine Mountain league has been
disrupted by the withdrawal of Walla
Walla and Pendleton, after Walla
Walla had promulgated the organiza
tion and with Pendleton, Athena, and
Milton delegates had signed articles
of agreement.
The dismemberment of the league
beoame known definitely last Saturday
when n couple of boosters from Boise,
Idaho, converted Pendleton and Walla
Walla to the inflated idea that Class
"D" ball was the artiole wanted.
Walla Walla fell over herselfin ac
cepting the proposition and Pendleton
followed suit in .raising the sum of
12600 to enter the leagne.
North Yakima oonld see nothng
offered in the class "D" proposition
exoept a defloit at the end of the sea
son and turned the offer down. The
towns now embraced in the league
proposed are Walla Walla, Pendleton,
LaGrande, Baker, Ontario and Boise.
Eaoh town is required to raise $2500
and pnt op a certified oheok for $500
as forfeit if the team fails to finish
the season as sohednled. Six games
are to be played at Boise when the
team is at home and the same num
ber of games are to be played at Walla
Walla, the remaining towns In the
league to l e given three -games each
playing week. The teams divide equal
ly on a 15 per oent basis, 10 per cent
going to a staking fond.
" Athena fans prediot that the leagne
will not finish the season, for tbe rea
son that the territory covered is not
compaot enough, tbe jumps being too
far and expensive; week day games
will result in small gate receipts; and
further, they claim that class "D"
will be no. better ball than was seen
in tbe Bl.ne Mountain league last year.
; Athena-Weston and . Milton-Free-water
are left with players on their
hands, the management of tbe teams
having been pnt to expense in assem
bling their players. Ibey attribute
the disruption of the league as being
nothinglesa than, a rank breaob of
faith and a deliberate let-down in an
unsportsmanlike manner.
Athena will have no ball this year
exoept that played by tbe "Cubs,"
theseoond team. The Athena Base
Ball Association met yesterday after
noon, disbanded tbe team and made
arrangements to meet expenses in
curred. Milton-Freewater will prob
ably disband after Sunday. On that
day they play a benefit game with the
Walla Walla tnnoh to lift their ex
pense account, the Garden City sports
men) after listening to Jim Weal's
tale of woe oondesoended so mnoh for
charity's sake, and prospective gate
receipts . at their class "D" games.
Athena fans would see any old bunoh
of would-be sportsmen in the fiery
pit further than yon could toss a fea
ther, before they would aooept any
thing from them.
WO 00 VOICES SENTIMENT HERE
President of Disrupted League Takes
Characteristic Fling at Deserters.
Clark Wood, president of the Blue
Mountain Base Ball League, will say
editorially in his Weston Leader today:
"Walla Walla and Pendleton are
making rather a oommeroial proposi
tion of baseball. Their oommeroial
bodies have endorsed the tri-state
Class D leagne and entered Into a
whirlwind oampaign for subscriptions
with muob suooess.
"Very well, iadeed. But these
sapient promoters do not seem to
realize that there is a considerable
territory - between their reepeotive
n
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PE0Rery WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT P0HiL .
The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in
.-VEGETABLE
Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
DELL BROTHERS, ca5?SiS? " Athena, Oregon
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towns, peopled by a large number of
baseball fans who may also be dis
posed to regard baseball as a commer
cial proposition when tbey flounder ont
of tbe ditoh into whioh they have
been planged by the. larger towns.
Tbey may be disposed to say to them
selves that Walla Walla and Pendle
ton d". not want our support, and. we
will not give it them, either iu tase
ball or oommerce.
"The Bine Mountain leagne was
promoted this season by Walla Walla
men. lhe leagne articles were signed
by Walla Walla and Pendleton . men.
Pondleton'a requests as to the arrange
ment of the sohednle were complied
wud. its subsequent request to a
postponement was complied with.'
Walla j Walla strnok a broad-gauge
attitude, and expressed, satisfaction
and loyalty. . Freewater Milton - and
Athena-Weston organized their teams
and made ready to play jball. Athena
Weston bought new uniforms.
"Without notioe, without explan
ation, with utter Indifference toward
tbe baseball welfare of tbe smaller
towns, i Pendleton : and Walla Walla
listened to the siren pong of the tri
state' league promoters and dropped
lhe Blue Mountain league. Their oom
meroial bodies have said in effeot
that tbey prefer the support and good
will of Boise Baker, La Grande and
Ontario to tbe support and good will
of Milton, Freewater, , Athena and
Weston. 'They have said in effect to
tbe small towns:
" 'We don't want to play with you,
you little scrubs. We're afraid you'll
cop tbe pennant again this season,
and raffle oar dignity. You are not
in our class. In faot, you are just a
little bit too classy for us. We want
to go into a Class D league, tuy a
bnnoh of. mixed ale ball-tossers the
ragtag and tobtail of tbe Coast and
Northwest leagues and right it out
for the oellar position.'
"Very well again, you big quitters.
Have your way.. But you'll find it a
ratner tortuous way, lined with briok
bats, tborus and dornioks. ; Your' pre
cious league will last just about a
month, and yoar misled funs will soon
be mourning for their lost coin. Your
league .is conceived in deoeption and
nourished in treaohery. No loyal fan
from Freewater to Athena will attend
your games or bay a shoestring in your
towns., j You faaye said .with, a sneer
that yon oan get along without us.
We oan jolly well get along .without
you. , ...
"One recalls the beautiful and fra
ternal (sentimental and sloppy) get
together excursions that Pendleton and
Walla Walla oommeroial bodies have
pulled oft in the. past. Invading onr
towns with banner and badge and
button and unotious j miles, tbey have
told us bow they . loved us. , Tbey
were mistaken. They loved oar dollars;
and the fewer they get hereafter the
more poignant will be their regret.
They oame to us '.as Greeks bearing
gifts, with smiles upon their lips but
with deoeit in their hearts. Let them
take their gifts to tbe strangers in
Boise, Baker, La Grande and Ontario.
These cities will doubtless be over
whelmed with joy at tbe ohanoe to
enroll themselves as the commercial
and baseball thralls of Pendleton and
Walla Walla."
LOCAL INSTITUTE AT ECHO
Splendid Program Offered by Leading
Educators Tomorrow.
A Iooal Teachers' Institute is to be
held at Eoho tomorrow April 6, and
an exoellent program is announoed as
follows:
10 a.m.
Opening exeroises. -Singing.
How to Use the Coarse of Study,
W. W. Wiley.
The Use of Piotures in Language Work
Blanobe E. Small
Music
How to Seoure Better Writing,
B. T. Youel.
Noon Intermission.
1 :00 p. m.
Singing.
Thoroughness in Arithmetic,
Joel Davis.
Music.
Ciril Government, L. W. Keeler.
Indian Club Swinging.
J. L. Thompson. -Address,
State Supt. L. R. Alderman.
Evening, 8 p. m. ,
Music.
Address, - Supt. J. S. Lenders.
Address, State Supt. L. B. Alderman.
All teaohers employed , in Distriets
Nob. 5, 6, 8, 11, 28. 60 and 61 are ex
peoted to te present. Please invite
your school offioers and patrons to
oome.
Miss Gladys Soroggs will conduct
tbe singing, and Mr. Ottimer A. Can
non will have charge of tbe lustra
mental musio. A dinner will be
served to wbiob all of tbe teachers are
cordially invited.
Miss Adoa Raley of Pendlston,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Raley,
was united in marriage Wednesday
evening to A. U.Harlow, of Wood-burn.
SELLS OIL L
LOSES FORTUNE
SHREWD WOMAN BUYS SPEN
CER FARM FOR $1,000.
New Texas Oil Field at Door
of Athena Man's Old Home
stead Down at Olney.
Fortune knooked at the donr of onr
fellow townsman, S. L. Spencer, re
cently, but the tap was cot loud
enough for the gentleman lo clearly
hear and he has narrowly missed
being made an oil baron.
Down in Texas Mr. Spencer for
many years has owned 80 aores of
land, wtoioh has been farmed by his
brother, Some months ago an oil
field was developed not many miles
from tbe Spencer place, and last sum
mer when Mr. and Mrs. Spenoer were
on a visit to their old home, offers
were made to lease the land from him
by oil promoters. He would not con
sider any ot tbe offers made to him to
lease, bat considered an offer made by
a lady to purobase the place for tbe
sum of $1000, on oertain terms agreed
upon, i
Negotiations have remained open
sinoe Mr. Spenoer's return, notil sev
eral weeks ago, when the woman tel
egraphed that she would take tbe
plaoe at the figure and terms stated.
Mr. Spenoer reoeived a certified oheok
for tbe first payment and returned a
bond for a deed to be delivered to the
purchaser when she makes tbe final
payment.
Tbe papers of transfer bad hardly
reached tbe plaoe of destination, when
Mr. Spenoer reoeived a copy of an
Olney, Texas, paper, 1 containing an
artiole desoriptive of a big well in
which oil in large quantities Had been
strnok, within a mile and a half of tbe
plaoe be bad just disposed of for a
mere pittance.
Mr. Spenoer takes the losing of a
fortune philosophically. There is no
doubt iu bis mind that oil gushers will
spout golden dollars from every aore
of the laud be sold so cheaply, and
now and then he refloats on the saga
cious business judgment of tbe lady
purohaser and wonders why oertain
relatives of his, who were nognizant
of the trend of events in tbe Texas oil
fluid did not inform him of the facts.
Sam McBride Badlv Hurt.
Sam MoBride of Walla Walla was
dangerously hurt in an automobilo
acoident at the Prioe plaoe just north
of Weston, about five o'clock last eve
ning. Mr. MoBride was driving John
Bell's White steamer wbiob bad been
repaired in the MoBride shop, and
Mr. Bell was in the seat with him.
Striking tbe railroad crofting, the oar
skidded, turned turtle and threw tbe
two men out. Mr. Bell fell clear of
the machine but Mr, MoBride was
oaugbt by tbe baok of tbe seat strik
ing him on the bead and shoulder.
Mr. Belle esoapod with a sprained arm
and held tbe weight of tho oar off
MoBride'a head until James Bell, who
was following in bis oar some distance
behind, oame up, when tbe injured
man was taken to Weston and Dr.'
Keelor summoned from Walla v7al!a.
Examination revealed that tbe shoul
der blade was broken and that be had
suffered concussion of tbe brain. Tbe
injured man bad not regained con
sciousness at the time of going to press.
Wheat Brings 80 Cents.
Tbe principal wheat deal of several
weeks transpired in Athena Tuesday
evening wben J. W. Maloney, man
ager for tbe Farmers' Union Grain
Ageoov, oame up from Pendleton and
porobased 27,000 bushels of tbe Preston-Shaffer
Milling oompany at a
prioe of 80 cents a bushel. Owing to
tbe lateness of the season tbe sale is
considered a large one and tbe prioe
paid by Mr. Maloney was considera
bly above tbat paid by tbe milling
company when tbe grain was trans
ferred to it by tbe growers. The con
signment was olub wheat straight.
Her Long Lost Father,
Mabel Winter, wbo bn offered tbe
seventh will iu tbe Young estate for
probate, tells a Pendleton paper tbat
she is satisfied that she baa found
her long lost fatbar, M. R. Yooug,
brother of ber nnole and stepfather,
J. W. Young, deceased. Mabel's fa
ther was reported to have died in tbe
Good Samaritan hospital at Poitland,
25 years ago. In finding ber father,
she declares tbat his arrival will ab
rogate all previous court deorees in
tbe long-fought will oases. Tbe fa
tberissaid to reside at Cadotf, Wis
consin.
KOOIITZ NAMES DAY
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Mayor Koontz annonnoes tbat next
Friday, April 12, will fa set aside
for Athena's annual cleanup day,
wben all residents and property own
ers will be required to clean op their
premises. All debris and superfluous
trash will Le carted away or burned,
and it is tbe intention to make of
Athena a model city io cleanliness.
Tbe mayor will appoint committees
of ladies residing in tbe different
parts of the oity to oversee tbe work,
eaoh to superintend operations in ber
own immediate neighborhood.
Single File.
When the Indiana traveled together
they seldom walked or rode two or
more abreast, lut followed one another
in single file. It has been thought by
some tbat this practice resulted from
the lack of roads, which compelled
them to make their way through woods
and around rocks by narrow paths. If
this were tbe real reason for the prac
tice, then we should expect to find that
tbe tribes wbo lived in open countries
traveled in company, as do whites.
The true reason for journeying as the
Indians did In single file seems to be
a feeling of caste. This feeling was
at the bottom of other customs of the
Indians. It made their women slaves
and rendered the men silent and unso
cial. This peculiarity is Asiatic. How it
has warped and disfigured Hindu life
Is well known. Home la scarcely pos
sible where it prevails. To the wom
en and children domestic life is bond
age. The .women of a Chinese house
hold are seldom seen In tbe street. The
children, when accompanying their
father, follow him at a respectful dis
tance, in single file and In the order of
their ages. Harper's Weekly.
Don't Be a Chatterer.
Do you chatter? If you feel you do,
don't! Get rid of the bablt as quickly
as maybe. , There is nothing so irritat
ing or more dangerous, nis chief asks
the clerk a question which requires a
brief answer. Instead of replying in a
word, be irritates his superior by in
consequent meanderings, and be is sur
prised and hurt to be curtly cut short
His astonishment, however, would be
greater could he but overhear a subse
quent conversation. "Shall we send
Jones on this special commission?"
asks the bead clerk. "No," replies the
chief; "he chatters too much."
It has always been so. Famous gen
erals , have ever intrusted . important
messages to the man who would rath
er be shot than speak. Then, too, a
chatterer bos few friends, whether
business or otherwise. Who can feel
at ease with a man who babbles all
you tell him in confidence to the next
comer? Pearson's Weekly.
Try a Single Rose.
"We read," snid Lucinda, "about how
Adolpbus .brought to Luella a great
bunch of roses, and we can imagine
their beauty. We are left, to guess at
their cost. But do you know it isn't
really necessary in order to make home
beautiful to have a bunch of roses as
big around as a barrel; that a single
lovely rose will do?
"Try this: If you have spent all your
money for hnts and gloves and Adol
pbus hasn't come my brother Claude
would say hasn't come toeMie bat stop
at the florist's and buy u single rose
It will cost very little and take that
home and set it in the proper vase, its
red petals and green leaves to please
tbe eye and its fragrance to fill the
room, an individual flower of grace
and beauty and joy. If you can't
have a bunch try a single rose." New
York Sun.
The Everglades.
The region known as the Everglade
of Florida la about sixty miles long by
some flfty-Oflve miles brond and is one
vast swamp, studded with islands of
from a quarter of an acre to hundreds
of acres in extent. TheBe Islands are
generally covered with dense thickets
of shrubbery or vines and occasion
ally with lofty pines and palmettos.
The water is from one to six feet deep,
the bottom, as a rule, covered with a
growth of rank grnss. During the
rainy season, from July to October, tho
district comprised In the Everglades is
practically impenetrable.- Tbe vege
table deposit of the Everglades is con
sidered well adapted to the growth of
tbe banana and other fruits, and when
properly drained the region will un
doubtedly be one of the most fertile on
eartu.-New York American.
Struggle of the Riven.
The discovery that there is a kind of
struggle for existence and survival of
the fittest among rivers is one of the
most Interesting results of the modern
study of physiography. A notable ex
ample of this contest is exhibited by
England's two biggest rivers, the
Thames and tbe Severn. Between tbclr
valleys He the Cotswold bills, and ex
ploration shows tbat the Severn by
eating backward among these hills
where softer strata underlie them has
diverted to Itself some of the headwa
ters which formerly flowed into the
Thames.
She Made a Mistake,
Two girls, the story ran, were drink
ing tea and eating scones at a fashion
able New York restaurant. Tbe first
girl said:
"Maud Is so sorry she took Reggie's
ring buck to Dymon's to be valued."
"Why?" asked the other girl as she
opened a fresh scone.-
"Dymon kept It. lie said Reggie
hadn't been in to settle for it, accord
ing to his promise."
Not In Condition.
Professional Beggar (in nnrdupp's
office) I've been out o' work for over
a year, mister, and ain't got the price
o' a night's lodgin'. Can yer do any
thing to help me out? Uardnpp (sar
donically) I'd like to, but I 'sprained
my foot on a collector yesterday.
Too 8ne.
"I don't believe this novel of yours
will hit tbe popular fancy."
"What's wrong with it?"
"Your heroine acts at times as if she
bad sense." Washington Herald.
Friendly Advice.
"We surprised all our friends by get
ting married."
"Good enough" Now surprise 'em by
staying ma tried."-Ka&sns City Journal,
' ffl PETEBSO
MILTON MAN SAYS HE HAS
BEEN SLATED FOR DEFEAT.
Does Not See Fit to Follow
Suggestions and Instructions
of Mann-Hinkle Backers. ,
Sam Peterson, tbe Milton attorney,
who was a representative in the last
legislature, and who is a candidate
for nomination end reeleotion, is hav
ing hard eledding in the present cam
paign. .' Declaring tbat the republican
machine leaders of the oounty are
waging war against him beoause tbey
were unable to control his aotions in
tbe legislature, Peterson is quoted by
a Pendleton paper as follows.
"I find tbat tbe machine is fighting
me and endorsing Mann and Hiokle
for nominations. Tbey are doing so
beoause I did not see tit to follow their
suggestions and instructions. In tbe
speakership fight two years ago tbe
machine was baoking W. Lair Thomp- -son,
wbo is a genuine machine polit
ician, and tbey commanded , that I
should vote for Thompson. -1 refused
to work for him and voted for the
election of Rnsk, the progressisve can
didate. "I was urged by the maohine to
oppose Senate Bill No. 75. This law
plaoes tbe state printer upon a flat
salary and removes tbe graft whioh
baa heretofore teen oonneoted with
tbe office. It eaves tbe taxpayers of
Oregon from thirty to forty thousand .
dollars per annum. The maohine lined
up unanimously in opposition to tbe
bill. I voted for the bill and worked
bard to seoure its passage. After a
bitter fight the bill passed and is no v
a law. ,
"I was urged by the maohine to
support House Bill No. 218 The
Rogue River Fish Bill, whioh would
have repealed a law passed by tbe peo
ple less than two months before. I
fought the bill, but tbe maohine and
lobbyists seoured its passage. It was
afterwards vetoed by tbe governor."
-Though he has not yet Completed
his campaign, Peterson deolares he is
muob enoouraged over tbe outlook for
his renomination and expects a viotory
at the primary despite tbe faot some
of the organization leaders have mark
ed him for slaughter.
MENELEY CONCERT COMPANY
Last of the Lyceum Course at Chris
tian Church Tomorrow Evening.
Tbe Meneley Concert Company will
appear at tbe Christian church to
morrow evening, April 0, in the lasi
number of the Lyceum course given
under the auspioes of tbe Athena1
Commercial Club, and it is toped th9t
a large audience will be present to
enjoy tbe evening's entertainment.
This oonoert oompany embraces the
famous Meneley Quartette,., and Ray
mond MoCord, impersonator and read
er. Tbe Quartette has been before
trie public over 17 years and is per
haps the best kocwn company of its .
kind in the oountry. It was origin
ally organized as a oompany of tern
peranoe singers, but long -ago--broadened
out so that now it stands in tbe
front rank as a popular entertainment
oompany on lecture oourses and Chau
tauqua assemblies. Tbe following is
from tbe Savannah Daily Journal:
"An Immense audience gathered at
tbe Baptist Oburob last evening to en
joy the first nnmber iu tbe course of ,
entertainment given under tbe auspio-
es or iue ouurou. xoe entertainment
was given by the Meneley Couoert Co,
and on all sides today are heard ex
pressions of appreciation of the 'rare
merit of the evening's prorgam. Tbe
music on the Marimbapbooes and Or
gan Chimes was never surpassed in
this oity and tbe large audieuoe was
held spellbound by tbe sweet sounds.
"Tbe singing was another delightful ,
feature, especially the work of tbe so
prano soloist, Miss Cora Rioketts,
wnose sweei voice enioranea ner Hear
ers. "There was not a doll moment dar
ing tbe evening and our friends, of
tbe Baptist church have just cause to
feel proud over the suooess of tbe
first number."
Deputy Assessors,
Assessor Strata has appointed the
following deputies to; take the assess
ment of Umatilla county property:
Freewater, Charles Walden; Valley,
O. E. Simmouda; Mllron, R. F. Van
oil; Ukiab, J. W. Sturdivant; Pilot
Rock, S. B. Neil: Nolin. O. F. Steele;
Eoho, Robert Lewis; Hermistou, O.
II. Skinner; McKay, Alex Hudson;
Reservation, D. Turner; Meaoham,
W. B. Rosa; Athena, George W.
Gross; Westoo, Charles L. Ptokettoo ;
Pendleton. A. W. Nye. .
Fresh Deer Trackr.
Fresh deer traokt have been dis
covered impressed in tbe uew concrete
approaou to tbe doorway of the post
office. How tbey oame there oan be
explained by Postmaster Wortbington,
himself a mighty hunter. Tbe idea
of putting the tracks there is unique
and bungs to mind reminiscences of
tbe Grand Ronde and the Limber Jim.